graywolf wrote: > Air cooled engines can not meet the smog laws, of course they had to > redesign it. > > I think you mean the 914. IIRC, the 924, 928 and 958 all came out about > the same time. The 924 was a sporty car (looked like a sports car, but > without the performance), the 928 was the mainstream front engined > sports car, and the 958 was the Ferrari killer. Maybe the 958 never > actually hit the streets (it didn't in the US). > > Mr Porsche was the developer of the Volkswagon. The early Porsches had > souped up VW engines in them. Volkswagon bought out Porsche in the 60's, > maybe it has been spun off again (I have not been keeping up). >
I think you're referring to the 959 here. Less than 200 were made. There was no 958 as far as I can determine. And VW never owned Porsche. The Porsche family and the related Piech family owned it outright until 1972 when it was converted into a private limited firm. The same two families own all shares. Porsche in fact owns 25% or so of VW. -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
